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This is also why I don't like eating out much anymore. Every restaurant just leans so hard on heavily salting fats to make their food taste good.

I'd rather cook myself now where I can actually taste flavors and feel good, rather than just having the primal "mmm good food" button bashed in my lizard brain and feeling like garbage afterwards.

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When I was in college in Massachusetts in the mid 1990s, there was a buffet-style Greek restaurant named "Brothers". (Somewhere near Peabody I think.)

The Greek woman behind the counter made me (well, guilted me into) getting some vegetables with my order. They weren't too salty or fatty; they were just good for me (and tasty).

It was like being fed by one's own mom. It was awesome.

This comments and many of the others on this thread strike me as written by people who have either never worked at a real restaurant and/or tend to order bland and fatty food (eat like a toddler) by default when they patronize restaurants.

This is fine but really not reflective of good restaurants and the majority of the food they serve.

What do you mean? Even in the linked article, the food critics consistently pointed out that restaurants make food very rich so that it's more appealing. And how they suffered from eating so much rich food.

It sounds like you are describing gorging yourself at Taco Bell. There must be better restaurants and eateries than that around you.

Taco Bell doesn’t use butter, AFAIK.

Neither do many major cuisines, like Mediterranean, Mexican, Thai, Japanese and Chinese.

Is butter really the problem here? Because to me it sounds like the problem is habitual over-eating.

Risotto in Italian cooking definitely uses buttoer. But, I already know what your reply will be: "Oh, that's Northern Italian cooking -- it doesn't count." Most normie readers don't care about that distinction.

Japanese izakayas frequently sell grilled items wrapped in foil that is swimming in butter. Again, I assume you will reply: "Oh, but that's not traditional Japanese cooking -- it doesn't count." Again, most normie readers don't care about that distinction.

Miso and butter is also a common combination even in home cooking these days.

Japanese cuisine absolutely does use butter, just not nearly as much as other cultures.

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